World Beyond War’s calendar of important peace events let’s you know what happened in the past on a given day. It’s a great way to bring inspiration from history into the present, and it has just been updated here.

Can you make an App? We’d like to provide people with an app for phones that will let them know each day the peace events of the past that occurred on that day. If you know how to make apps please contact us.

Stand Up For Truth: An International Week to Support Whistleblowing. Post your photo holding a piece of paper reading “Stand Up For Truth” here. Learn more and start planning events here.

April 24 – April 26 in New York, NY: Peace and the Planet Conference and Rally
* April 24/25 – An international peace, justice and environmental conference
* April 26 – A major international rally, march to the United Nations and peace festival

August 6 – 9 in Santa Fe, NM: Campaign Nonviolence National Conference(Aug 6 – Mark the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima with the annual sackcloth and ashes peace vigil and call for nuclear disarmament near the National Labs.
Aug 9 – Mark the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki with the annual sackcloth and ashes peace vigil and call for nuclear disarmament near the National Labs.)

August 6 in Hiroshima, Japan: “August 6, 2015 will be the 70th anniversary of the bombing [of Hiroshima]. Annually, there are events such as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony, with guest speakers, and the Lantern Floating Ceremony, in which lanterns float on the river as petitions for peace. Additional special events for the 70th anniversary are to be announced.”

August 9 in Nagasaki, Japan: [August 9, 2015 will be the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki. Commemoration events are held annually and, as with Hiroshima, it is expected that additional special events for the 70th anniversary are to be announced.]

Nietzsche and Chinese Thought – Fall 2015 Issue

The Agonist – The Nietzsche Circle

Guest Editor: Dr James Luchte

Final Deadline: August 31, 2015

The Agonist is seeking essays for its Fall 2015 edition ‘Nietzsche and Chinese Thought.’

The essays for this edition have the opportunity of variety, due to the richness of this topic. Essays may cover firstly any aspect of the influence of Nietzschean thought upon Modern Chinese history, politics, literature, art, music, philosophy and/or religion.

Secondly, the essays can be explorations of the myriad relationships and divergences between not only Nietzsche and any particular aspect or type of Chinese thought, but also may engage in contestation or exploration of Nietzsche’s statements regarding Chinese Thought.

Thirdly, essays by contemporary scholars of Nietzsche in or from China are welcome. This is not an exhaustive list. Contributors should be mindful of The Agonist primary readership: professional philosophers, academicians in the arts, and practicing artists.

Please submit initially a proposal for an essay, which must be original work by the submitting author. All submissions should be sent to Dr James Luchte at jamesluchte@hotmail.com.

Raymond Williams NOW: May 30, 2015

Recent years have witnessed major critical reappraisals of British Cultural Studies and its key figures. This one-day conference, organised by the Greater Manchester-based Radical Studies Network, continues that process through assessment of Raymond Williams’ work and legacy.

The event will feature a keynote lecture from Professor Tony Crowley. Artist Ruth Beale will present a film of her 30-minute performance, ‘Performing Keywords’, first performed at the Turner Contemporary, 2013. The day will conclude with a round-table discussion on Raymond Williams and the contemporary Left.

Topics of presentations may include contemporary ‘structures of feeling’; adult education past and present; ecology; cultural materialism now; feminism; media, technology, and cultural form; politics and letters; Williams and Wales; the May Day Manifesto; post-colonial and global Williams; science fiction; the public intellectual; Williams and the politics of criticism; Williams as novelist and playwright; creative practices; cultural institutions; ‘old’ and ‘new’ lefts.

The conference will be held at the Friends’ Meeting House in central Manchester on Saturday 30 May 2015. Registration costs will be kept to a minimum thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Raymond Williams Society and the Raymond Williams Foundation.

Visit villages, towns, where Friedrich Nietzsche lived, while studying and discussing his works and ideas.

Some places:

For more information, please visit www.philomobile.com, write to us atinfo@philomobile.com,or, call us at 917-740-9565.

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Description (You Tube):

This 45 minute talk at a conference in 1987 on the “act of creation” in cinema is perhaps the most intimate capture of Gilles Deleuze on film besides the Abécédaire interview. Gilles Deleuze speaks continuously and fluidly in a raspy but gentle and sincere voice that betrays much reverence for the work of figures such as Bresson and Kurosawa, particularly as concerns what Deleuze claims to be an absolute need of theirs to adapt the works of Shakespeare and Dostoevsky for film. Other figures discussed include Syberberg, Straub and Duras, along with a discussion of Foucault and disciplinary societies. Deleuze concludes with a meditation on what he calls the “mysterious connection between the work of art and the act of resistance.”